ANT1

Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a popular television station in Greece. It is pronounced "Antenna", because the Greek word for 1 is ?na. The first broadcast began in the late-1980s. Programs like Wheel of Fortune (Greek Version), and Oi Men Kai Oi Den were among being the top 10 shows in the nation or state of Greece. Cartoons are offered in the morning. Most of them are shown in the Greek language. Today they are offered only on Weekend mornings. Studio me Thea replaced Saturday morning (8 to 11am Balkans-Nile Valley Time, a time zone not to confuse with other names with the same GMT+2 time zone like Balkans, Finland, Mozambique Time zones, etc.) cartoons for Fall, Winter and Spring. Antenna also has a radio. On satellite which owns NovaSat, Antenna can be seen only on NovaSat. It was originally diffused to Odyssey Television Network (OTN) in Canadian satellite and digital systems. It is one of the stations that does not have local affiliates that also broadcasts ANT1.

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Programs that were shown on ANT1 were CBS Evening News from America. NBC News in Greece is shown on NBC Europe, see also NBC, and not on any other channels. ANT1 Satellite News was also shown until the late 1990s.

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A 30-second commercial which is shown only on ANT1, and sometimes Star Channel shows all the guide to Greece's beaches, and sunny beaches.

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Its station is located in an Athens suburb of Maroussi. Its main Athens signals is on Mount Hymettus. Others are scattered across Greece and Cyprus. The rest are on digital networks.

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The ANT1 logo is colored with gold with ANT flattened 20 degrees to the right and the #1 is bolded at size 2. At the left edges of the #1, two lines starting from A to 1. The line at the top is short and the line at the bottom is almost long. The logo is placed at the top-left on ANT1.

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Its present slogan from late-2003 is: Vl?po/Bl?po ANT1 which means I'm watching ANT1 in English.

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ANT1 obtains viewing statistics from Metronanalysis.

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